The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1887-12-02
TERRIToRIAL aIEAnIses.

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Grand Forks has new gas WORKS Just com.
pleted that cost $4,000.
One hundred and twenty-five students are
attending the Madison Normal school.
Territorial Auditor Ward has removed his
residence from Bismarck to Sioux Falls.
The annual meeting Of the Dakota Farmes'
Alliance will be held at Huron, December 16.
John H. Gowan, and daughter Nellie, died
at Huron. Wednesday, suffocated BY gas ss-
Gaping from coal stove.
President e. P. Wells, Of the Aberdeen, Bis
marck 4 Northern railway, has established his
permanent headquarters at Jamestown.
John Rogers, Of Deadwood, reported
drowned in the Missouri river near Yankton in
1881. is said to be alive and living in New
Mexico. he started the report Of bis death to
avoid domestic unpleasantness.
Acting Land Commissioner StockslaRer has
directed that a suit to recover $4,000 from
William Scott and French Bros, of the Dead
wood land district, for timber taken from pub
lie land BY Scott and sold to French Bros, be
instituted.
E. T. Langly, chairman Of the Beadle county
local option central committee, has issued a
call for convention to be held at Huron, on
December la to arrange for enforcement of
local option laws Of Dakota, which take effect
on the first Of January.
Hon. s. J. Kleinsr and Commissioner Nc.
Clure, Of Pierre, have gone to Warrington to
work for the opening Of tho Sioux reservation
at the coming session of congress. A new bill
has been drafted similar to the Dawes bill,
with many ob1ectlonal points loft out.
Henry S. Volkmar, the Milbank editor ar.
rested and taken to Philadelphia on charge
Of arson, has boon released and allowed to re-
turn home. Representations having been 70
ceived that Volkmar had for the past eleven
years led most exemplary life, tho Judge al
lowed mol pros to be entered and vokmsr
was discharged.
John B. Welcome asks Judge Francis to
issue au order for the reassembling of the can
vasslng board and recount Of the vote Of
Ward county. The case has caused considera-
bio interest from the fact that the throwing
out of the Minot vote gave a majority in tho
county for prohibition, while otherwise license
would have prevailed by $50 majority.
Mrs. John Scholtz, of Wall Lake township,
Minnehaha county, committed suicide at a late
hour Sunday night by hanging. Her husband
was Oh trial in Sioux Falls for obtaining
money under false pretenses, and The wife, in
modification at the disgrace, ended her life.
When Scholtz heard of bis wife's rash act he
flew into frenzy OF grief and rage Great
Ing quite sensation in Judge Spencer's court
room.
The barn on Peter Adams farm, eight miles
west Of New Rockford, was consumed BY fire
at an early hour Monday morning, destroying
100 bushels Of oats, about that amount OF
wheat and several hundred dollars worth of
farm implements aud machinery. Mr.. Adams
was away from home at tho time and no one
was known to have been near the structure
for twenty four hours. The loss was undoubt-
edly the effect Of incendiarism. No insurance.
The town Of Mandan Is every little while
overrun with Sioux Indians, who differ as
much from the traditional bloodthirsty Sioux
as the wild man Of the woods from the bright.
est flower Of civilization. These Indians are
teamsters who are engaged In hauling supplies
from the depot at Mandan to the Standing
Rock agency. They come with forty OK and
4 mule teama- at once. and the work Of loading
generally takes a day or two. These Gouxs
are very peaceable, and they have an intelli-
gence Of appearance and manner which one
would not look for In aborigines. 1t is gensr-
supposed by those who have noticed the rapid
strides that have been mads by this tribe sinca
the killing Of Custer that their progress Is to be
accredited to the superior management Of the
Standing Rock agency.